Literary usage of Shortenings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1813)"... and then that, in all its possible directions and fore- shortenings,—he would
have concluded my uncle Toby had got hold of the medius terminus, ..."

2.The Life of Lorenzo De'Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe, Lorenzo de' Medici (1797)"... or fore-shortenings, with accuracy and effect (f). The merit of having been
the first to apply mathematical rules to the improvement of works of art, ..."

3.Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)"Tell him really to have no scruples on this last point, as I recognise myself
that shortenings must be made in that act; I had already resolved on it, ..."

4.Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)"Perspective alone enables us to represent fore- shortenings with accuracy, and
it is requisite in delineating even the simplest positions of objects. ..."